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instances, for their exact times of flowering, or copy the undisputed 

 statements of his predecessors. 



If it be thought that such an exactitude as I wish can scarcely be 

 expected in general Floras, then perhaps it might be useful to have a 

 companion Catalogue formed somewhat on the plan of Mr. Forster's 

 * Flora Spectabilis,' and indicating, as he does, the " times of first 

 flowering, full blow, and going out of bloom." This, with illustrative 

 notes, might be rendered interesting and instructive, even beyond the 

 circle of the collecting botanist. I only throw out the hint at present. 

 Mr. Forster's work from which I have quoted is, 1 believe, now out of 

 print, and for the pure botanist (though full of curious remarks) is 

 rather too overloaded with weather prognostications, astronomical de- 

 tails, and references to saints of olden days, who, however, in many 

 instances had their names connected with our familiar wild plants. In 

 an interleaved catalogue of the kind I advert to, and carried out on 

 excursions, memoranda of flowering, habitats, and other details might 

 be at once noted, which cannot be so well done in a valuable or bulky 

 general Flora, but which would be of great use for reference, and the 

 more so as done at the time. 



Edwin Lees. 



Cedar Terrace, Henwick, Worcester, 

 July 4th, 1848. 



A few Words on the terms Native, Naturalized, and Imperfectly 

 Naturalized. [See Phytol. Hi. 188], By S. P. Woodward, Esq. 



The meaning of these terms will be sufficiently obvious to most bo- 

 tanists ; if, however, any of your readers require an interpretation, the 

 following remarks are very much at their service. 



1. The term native involves the idea of the species having been 

 originally created in the region where it is found, or of its having 

 migrated into it by natural means, i. e., unassisted by man. For ex- 

 ample, the double cocoa-nut appears to be an aboriginal inhabitant 

 of the Seychelles Island ; whilst the common cocoa-nut has been 

 wafted by wind and wave from island to island, extending its range 

 every year, until we cannot trace its birth-place. Again, there are 

 some geological reasons for believing (and perhaps no botanical 

 reasons for disbelieving) that all our British plants have migrated 

 here, at some time or other, from various parts of the world ; that none 

 of them were originally created here. 



